The following was first posted last October but the sentiment goes further back than that. I urge anyone that knows that four additional years of Donald Trump would be nightmare within a nightmare to contact their Republican representatives in Congress....as I had with Senator Pat Toomey....and tell them to pressure President Trump to bow out of the 2020 race.....for the good of the country! There would be a nominee 'drafted'....and that candidate would beat Joe Biden....should God even permit us to get there.
Donald Trump divides and destroys....this because whether it was a tower project or some other big 'art of the deal'....or personal relationships....or politics....there is a malignancy in him. He turns what might be good...into something that decays before your eyes. The conservative movement is worthless since it threw in with him....talk radio is dead....(Rush's numbers don't indicate health but rather the extent of the malignancy)....and evangelicalism has at best been neutered. The chaos that is all around us today only needed a spark....and Donald Trump is more than a spark....he's a blowtorch. His mental instability concerns our military....to put it mildly. He gives opportunity to our enemies to exploit this chaos....and they are doing just that. We need to move on and attempt to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of this violent wind in the form of Donald Trump.
I had just turned eighteen....was a senior in high school....and in my usual spot at our hangout....a deli/novelty toy store run by a man who everyone in the neighborhood knew and liked....and who in our case....(my mother and I)....would tally our food debts up on the back of a cardboard counter display. I was the only teen there on a Sunday evening as most of the others were probably home studying or finishing up homework for Monday morning class. It was March 31, 1968....four days before Martin Luther King Jr. was killed.....and two months before Bobby Kennedy....and a few more months before the Democrat Convention riots in Chicago.
President Lyndon Johnson took the television airwaves with a speech to the nation primarily about peace negotiations and the failed Tet Offensive in Vietnam. He then stunned the nation....and me....at the end of the speech with these now famous words ...."With America's sons in the fields far away, with America's future under challenge right here at home, with our hopes and the world's hopes for peace in the balance every day, I do not believe that I should devote an hour or a day of my time to any personal partisan causes or to any duties other than the awesome duties of this office-the presidency of this country. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president."
This is what we need today from President Trump! Over the course of his life Donald Trump has cultivated division. He exudes within his character and personality that which tears apart and isolates. He himself thrives upon it. He likes to crush and he likes to hurt in response to being disrespected. Even large numbers of those who flutter around his flame are eventually burned in the heat. He brings out the worst in all of us.
The fact that he has a large contingent of true believers only supports this in that people take sides. You cannot have division unless people take sides. Republican members of Congress need to do what they should have done a few years ago....tell Donald Trump in no uncertain terms that his unceasing lies and his out-of-control narcissism and his viscous attacks on Twitter were not going to go unchallenged.... and that he was only a president....not a sovereign.
He will then of course attack these Republicans in Congress as traitors and enemies of the people....and his talk radio generals will attempt to lead an insurrection....(Rush is already trying to do that)....but the result would be poll numbers so low that even this president might be forced to give the speech given by LBJ. The result would be that someone would be 'drafted' at the convention....and without almost half of America despising a Republican presidential nominee....he (she) would certainly be favored over Joe Biden.
Having said this....and hoping for it....and praying that God might open the eyes of his church if no one else.... on the real Donald Trump....and free us from the bondage of @realDonald Trump....I know that this may not be the case.....and that Donald Trump may take us through this year.....and be the one who has to deal with wars....wars that he is right now instigating through his total lack of wisdom in anything not monetarily profitable.
Is there a chance that God might change the destructive nature of Donald Trump in the coming days? Yes....and we should pray for that....but right now we are praying for what we perceive to be a martyr.....when in fact he is a false prophet. Not only does our Congress need to step up....but our pulpits need to realize that they too were taken in....albeit with good intentions.....but nonetheless deceived....and enamored with a 'prince'....as they neglected the clear and lucid and discernible warnings to us today from God's Word.
Donald Trump divides and destroys....this because whether it was a tower project or some other big 'art of the deal'....or personal relationships....or politics....there is a malignancy in him. He turns what might be good...into something that decays before your eyes. The conservative movement is worthless since it threw in with him....talk radio is dead....(Rush's numbers don't indicate health but rather the extent of the malignancy)....and evangelicalism has at best been neutered. The chaos that is all around us today only needed a spark....and Donald Trump is more than a spark....he's a blowtorch. His mental instability concerns our military....to put it mildly. He gives opportunity to our enemies to exploit this chaos....and they are doing just that. We need to move on and attempt to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of this violent wind in the form of Donald Trump.
I had just turned eighteen....was a senior in high school....and in my usual spot at our hangout....a deli/novelty toy store run by a man who everyone in the neighborhood knew and liked....and who in our case....(my mother and I)....would tally our food debts up on the back of a cardboard counter display. I was the only teen there on a Sunday evening as most of the others were probably home studying or finishing up homework for Monday morning class. It was March 31, 1968....four days before Martin Luther King Jr. was killed.....and two months before Bobby Kennedy....and a few more months before the Democrat Convention riots in Chicago.
President Lyndon Johnson took the television airwaves with a speech to the nation primarily about peace negotiations and the failed Tet Offensive in Vietnam. He then stunned the nation....and me....at the end of the speech with these now famous words ...."With America's sons in the fields far away, with America's future under challenge right here at home, with our hopes and the world's hopes for peace in the balance every day, I do not believe that I should devote an hour or a day of my time to any personal partisan causes or to any duties other than the awesome duties of this office-the presidency of this country. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president."
This is what we need today from President Trump! Over the course of his life Donald Trump has cultivated division. He exudes within his character and personality that which tears apart and isolates. He himself thrives upon it. He likes to crush and he likes to hurt in response to being disrespected. Even large numbers of those who flutter around his flame are eventually burned in the heat. He brings out the worst in all of us.
The fact that he has a large contingent of true believers only supports this in that people take sides. You cannot have division unless people take sides. Republican members of Congress need to do what they should have done a few years ago....tell Donald Trump in no uncertain terms that his unceasing lies and his out-of-control narcissism and his viscous attacks on Twitter were not going to go unchallenged.... and that he was only a president....not a sovereign.
He will then of course attack these Republicans in Congress as traitors and enemies of the people....and his talk radio generals will attempt to lead an insurrection....(Rush is already trying to do that)....but the result would be poll numbers so low that even this president might be forced to give the speech given by LBJ. The result would be that someone would be 'drafted' at the convention....and without almost half of America despising a Republican presidential nominee....he (she) would certainly be favored over Joe Biden.
Having said this....and hoping for it....and praying that God might open the eyes of his church if no one else.... on the real Donald Trump....and free us from the bondage of @realDonald Trump....I know that this may not be the case.....and that Donald Trump may take us through this year.....and be the one who has to deal with wars....wars that he is right now instigating through his total lack of wisdom in anything not monetarily profitable.
Is there a chance that God might change the destructive nature of Donald Trump in the coming days? Yes....and we should pray for that....but right now we are praying for what we perceive to be a martyr.....when in fact he is a false prophet. Not only does our Congress need to step up....but our pulpits need to realize that they too were taken in....albeit with good intentions.....but nonetheless deceived....and enamored with a 'prince'....as they neglected the clear and lucid and discernible warnings to us today from God's Word.
